History Characters / TheWitcherOtherCharacters

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Bad childhood? Check. Being a mage of such power that drives him mad? Check. Seeing how cruel can non-humans be? Check? [[spoiler:Trying to save the world from the White Frost but failed? Check.]] Trying to make his plan [[spoiler:of exodus with people to North while crossing many lines? Check!]] Our villain, ladies and gentlemen!

* DiskOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: A rather late example, but one that still qualifies. Geralt spends the bulk of the game hounding him and the organization he leads. It's only after he's defeated in the game's penultimate chapter that we learn that he was acting on the orders of the Jacques de Aldersberg.]]

* MadScientist: [[spoiler: He uses the stolen mutagens to create an army of mutated soldiers for De Aldersberg.]]

* MeaningfulName: His name means [[spoiler: Eternal Fire]] in Persian. Considering who he works for, it's pretty clear foreshadowing.

* FantasticRacism: He considers Dopplers and other intelligent beings to be monsters worthy of execution, and obliquely refers to Geralt as a "thing" for being a witcher. He also considers any and all magic-users to be less than human.

* BullyingTheDragon: Torments an armed Geralt with his lover's screams while sitting across from him in small room, guarded by a single man. Said lover is one of the most powerful magicians alive. [[spoiler: Either way, it doesn't work out for him; Geralt either snaps and paints his office and the rest of the barracks red, or Triss holds out, breaks free of the torture restraints, and kills him herself.]]

** He has his torturers remove the fingernails of witches in order to interrogate them. [[spoiler: He can also subject Geralt to listening to Triss being tortured as they talk.]]

* CorruptChurch: Informs a bunch of looters that the sorcerers they murdered have had their property seized ''for the Church.'' [[spoiler: He has also been spending Sigi's money for his own benefit.]]

* TheWeirdSisters: They are daughters of a woodland spirit who went insane, protect the wilderness of Velen from their mother and offer other services while demanding reverence and tribute, including human sacrifice (which they use to maintain illusions of eternal youth and beauty).

* DealWithTheDevil: They will gladly lend you their assistance if you seek it out, and will always honor their word, but with [[ExactWords everything that entails]] and always at a steep price. [[spoiler:Anna came to them wishing to lose the child she conceived. They granted it by weakening her body so much she miscarried, and then forced her into their becoming their slave.]]

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* TheSpook: Not much is known about his true nature, and the fact that he can seemingly (at least with his time-freezing ability) [[TheOmnipresent appear out of nowhere anytime and vanish into thin air at will]] couldn't make him any creepier than he already is.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler: If you side with the Order, It becomes clear that Siegfried and the Knights under him do not approve of the Grand Master's schemes and when Siegfried ultimately succeeds Jacques as the Grand Master, he promises to change the Order for the better.]]

%%* OfficerAndAGentleman
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As a frequent battler of the paranormal, he will listen to even the oddest of stories and requests from Geralt and help as best he can. [[spoiler: Even more so when he takes over as the new Grand Master, and promises to change the Order for the better.]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: Siegfried of Denesle. If in the first game you side with the Order, he becomes the new Grandmaster and seemingly reforms the order into something more moderate and more true to its professed ideals. If however you side with Scocia-Tael elves, he becomes just as fanatical as the Order and dies.

* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler: To Ciri. See {{Foil}} at Alvin's sheet]].

** In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'', a letter reveals [[spoiler: he's already tried and failed to destroy the White Frost. Hence his plan in the first game. He's been driven insane by the knowledge the world is doomed due to him not being strong enough.]]

* UsedToBeASweetKid: The first game implies that he's the Alvin as an adult. A letter found in a side quest in the third game confirms it.

* WeCanRuleTogether: Would very much like Geralt to join him and the Order of the Flaming Rose (which makes an exception for its hatred of nonhumans regarding witchers just for him) so he can [[spoiler: lead the Exodus away from the Wolf's Blizzard.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Bad childhood? Check. Being a mage of such power that drives him mad? Check. Seeing how cruel can non-humans be? Check? [[spoiler: Trying to save the world from the White Frost but failed? Check.]] Trying to make his plan [[spoiler: of exodus with people to North while crossing many lines? Check!]] Our villain, ladies and gentlemen!
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Is funding his order of holy knights with money gained by selling Fisstech on the black market. This allows his knights to operate without hitting people up for money and get better PR. Then he starts rousing up the nonhumans to riot so he can cause chaos, which is designed to force King Foltest to either hand over power or look weak. In the latter case, his daughter is also cursed to be a Strigga again so Jacques can seize the throne for himself. This is all so he can become King of Temeria and lead its people in a mass exodus South when the White Frost hits so he can save them all.]]
* YourSoulIsMine: [[spoiler: After Geralt defeats him, a spectral projection of Eredin appears to claim Jacques's soul. Geralt can either let the King of the Wild Hunt take it or refuses, in which case he has to fight the King of the Wild Hunt. When Eredin questions why Geralt opposes him, given [[EnemyMine they both want de Aldersberg dead]], Geralt retorts he has his own reasons for killing Jacques, and he certainly doesn't owe the King of the Wild Hunt any favours]].

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And Order of Knights that defend the Church of Eternal Fire. They are very racist towards anybody who isn't human.

* {{Expy}}: The are very clearly based on historical Roman Catholic religious order Knights Templar and Knigths Teutonic. Like both these orders, they are tasked with defending the religion and even coat of arms looks very simillar. Some knights even have simillar names to real life knights from those two Orders.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Siegfried of Denesle. If in the first game you side with the Order, he becomes the new Grandmaster and seemingly reforms the order into more moderate and more true to its professed ideals. If however you side with Scocia-Tael elves, he becomes just as fanatical as the Order and dies.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Her existence potentially quite messes up the third game's plotline of Emhyr and Ciri. She was originally supposed to appear in the game somewhere in Skellige ([[spoiler:presumably in the final act when Nilfgaard is preparing to invade]]) but was one of several characters cut from the story

* TheSpook: Not much is known about his true nature, and the fact that he can seemingly (at least with his time-freezing ability) [[TheOmnipresent appear out of nowhere anytime and vanish into thin air at will]] couldn't make him any more creepier than he already is.

* TheSpook: Not much is known about his true nature, and the fact that he can [[TheOmnipresent appear out of nowhere anytime and vanish into thin air at will]] couldn't make him any more creepier than he already is.

* TheSpook: Not much is known about his true nature, and the fact that he can appear out of nowhere anytime and disappear into thin air at will couldn't make him any more creepier than he already is.

* VillainousVirtues: While O'Dimm may be evil and sadistic with litterally no act of depravity beyond his capability or enjoyment, he has a few qualities that keep him from being [[EatsBabies baby eating]], [[AxCrazy chaotic]], and [[CardCarryingVillain mustache twirling bastard]]. To wit:

* RealityWarper: While it seems obvious by the way Gaunter can appear anywhere, stop time, summon storms, and the fact that he can get seemingly any item no matter how difficult it should to obtain there is more subtle and sinister clues to the true nature of his powers and what he can do. When Geralt supposes to him that Gaunter is a mage, Gaunter expresses disdain saying he cannot abide spells and calling standard magic mere "hocus-pocus" while saying it isn't interesting to him. He later tells Shani that his ability to know things and perceive the supernatural is an inherent ability posing her the question "would you ask a bird how it knows to fly". Lastly, when he stops time he mentions that it's something he likes to play with and that he taught himself how to do it. All of this leads to the FridgeHorror that, while Gaunter may be able to use magic and magical effects, it not the source of his abilities and he is, in fact, altering reality by will alone.

* PetTheDog: If Geralt sides with him in the end, he will grant Geralt anything he wants. If Geralt asks where Ciri is, O'Dimm will tell him that he can't do that, as even he has his limitions. He does go on to tell Geralt what he needs to do to avoid the [[spoiler:Ciri dies ending.]]

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: He actually appears in the background through most of "Heart of Stone", lurking in the background (Sometimes under disguise) to keep tabs on Geralt. CD Projekt Red actually ran a contest to have people find all his appearances, and no one could find all of them, so the winner was chosen from those "close enough". Examples include:

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Gaunter seems to imply this when he explains that he never cheats and [[LiteralGenie always give people what they ask for]] [[JackassGenie (though not what they actually want)]] and that it's their fault for wanting such unworthy things. While he takes sadistic pleasure in the misery of those he contracts with, [[VillainHasAPoint he is correct that sacrificing a relative for the wealth needed to marry a rich lover isn't something done by the morally upstanding.]] To his mind, everyone who seeks him out and chooses to make a deal with him deserves whatever they get.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: If Geralt allows O'Dimm to collect on his deal with Olgierd, then he claims Olgierd's soul and goes on his merry way]]

* MakeAnExampleOfThem: [[spoiler: In ''Blood and Wine'', his influence is still felt. He once appeared at a certain Toussaint noble lady's feast as a beggar pleading for food. The custom in Toussaint is to allow travellers and beggars hospitality. The noble lady, a beautiful woman, ignored the custom and refused O'Dimm any food. His reply was a curse: "None shall sit and dine with you at your table, no spoon you have shall sate you, never again shall you wish to spy your reflection in the mirror". The woman was turned into hideous and violent wight that collected spoons, desperately hoping one would allow her to eat, to no avail. She abducted people and tried to make them eat with her, but all ended up dead in one way or another, and she smashed all the mirrors in her manor. Her family was forced to flee and her home fell to ruin. Her curse can be lifted if Geralt deduces how; otherwise he can only cut her down.]]

* ExactWords: He adores tricking people by way of ambiguous wording that can be interpreted however suits him. For example, his contract with Olgierd said that it could only be collected when he and Olgierd "stand together on the Moon." naturally, Olgierd thinks this makes him quite safe. [[spoiler: Until he finds himself standing with O'Dimm on a mosaic of the moon, which counts for the contract.]] Another of his contracts mentions the condition "when the sun rises over Rivia under the dark of the night". [[spoiler: And then Rivia is conquered by Nilfgaard, whose symbol is a sun.]]

-->'''Nathaniel''': [[SarcasmMode Strangely enough, I don't announce these outings far and wide]]. There's only one person who could...[[ThisCannotBe but that's impossible]]. [[spoiler: He treats even corpses with kid gloves]].

%%* {{Jerkass}}

* SinisterMinister: A priest of the Eternal Fire who oversees funerals...and tortures women in his spare time for his own amusement.
* TemptingFate: Gloatingly tells a bound and gagged prostitute he's about to torture no one will hear her screams...and then an ''extremely'' pissed off Geralt walks in.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: perhaps the closest we ever get to a substantial theory of his true nature is that he's, somehow, [[spoiler:an interactive avatar of the very concept of "Evil" itself". It also suggests that he may've visited our own world at times in the past, and that he gave birth to Earth legends of the Devil.]]

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: When Geralt asks O'Dimm what his true name is, O'Dimm warns him that everybody who has found out what it was is now insane, dead or both. In addition, one scholar who had been studying O'Dimm's true nature became blind from reading forbidden texts, then became convinced he would die upon leaving his protective wards. [[spoiler:He is absolutely right about the latter.]]

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Possibly combined with GreaterScopeVillain. According to the Gwent Game he disguised himself as a Nilfgaardian officer in the same regiment as the Usurper and encouraged and aided him to seek his 'full potential'. Leading to the Usurper overthrowing Emperor Fergus Var Emreis, killing him, torturing, cursing and banishing a young Emhyr, ruling the Empire for over twenty years, destroying the School of the Viper, and essentially setting many of the events of the series into motion. At least in game canon.

* SquishyWizard: Relatively. They wield great magic that grants them almost godlike power across across all of Velen and leaves them nearly untouchable. [[spoiler:However, when the Ladies are physically cornered and forced to fight, they're not particularly skilled against more accomplished warriors like Ciri and Geralt.]]

* WickedWitch: They draw heavily from the imagery of Baba Yaga, the quintessential wicked witch of the Slavic folklore, and like she they are inhuman ogre-like creatures with unclear but enormous power over nature. It is also entirely possible that they were, in part at least, inspired by the three witches of Shakespeare's Theatre/{{Macbeth}} or the ''Graeae'', Grey Sisters, from [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]].

* TokenGoodTeammate: He's the only person in Skellen's group that isn't a stone-cold killer for hire or outright psycho, shows consciousness over all the evil acts and clearly resents working for those people, but he simply needs the money they pay. Eventually he simply can't stomach any more his employer and "coworkers" and bails on them.